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Gerri ................ I hate doing those q by q searches ........... in fact I rarely do do them!

It seems that we are all in agreement that there is less work for us to do.


Now ...... does this mean that fewer people are using GR to search for their relations, do they not realise these boards are here, or are they just paying extra to access the censuses etc that GR offers?


sylvia

I have been on here for four years and can remember the boards moving quick as a flash of lightening, we use to be up in the early hours on general boards playing quizzes and having debates.
The trying to find board was more for people looking for help finding long lost relatives rather than lookup,s. Now the records board hardly moves.
There certainly not as many people on here as there was when i started 4 years ago, i come on have a look to see who is about ,i do not post much not like i use too, it certainly not the same anymore .
Tracy

Hi everyone,

Sorry I disappeared last night - son needed the computer (it's his, not mine).

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels the same. I really feel that the site is more a social networking site these days rather than serious genealogy (although I have no room to talk as I'm not really doing my own family research any more). I do go onto the General board now and again, but even though I've used the site since not long after it started I still feel like a stranger on there and prefer the Record Office and Tips boards.

I tend to just come on the site for half an hour at a time now - but I used to be here from 8 in the morning until about 10 minutes before hubby came home from work at 5 o'clock. I often think of not renewing my subscription - but then think that £10 a year isn't that much, even if I don't use the site as often as I did, so I'll probably keep renewing.

Kath. x

I wonder if it has something to do with stories that appear on the sucess board? someoone posted to say they started yesterday and found a family member that gave them their tree back to 1674!.

Could it be that a lot of new people joining now are finding others that have already done the research? don't see the fun in that myself

I wonder if it's more people like me, who joined many many years ago and now instead of filling the boards with questions, i'm trawling the boards finding people answers.

Could it just be we have matured with the boards and now we have the knowledge to find, we have lost the joy in looking?

There is definately a lull in requests, but i do personally think that as a site gets older and wiser, so do the users... when we all joined suddenly together we were all struggling together.... now we are all seasoned searchers we sit silently in wait !

I definately personally love doing the Q by Q search's finding data that hasn't been found yet (Transcribed) i love that part of finding people. I love finding a marriage, then the children, the grandchildren 'til i can find someone on the Electoral roll and then give someone the address (I tend not to send telephone numbers) of a long lost sister, brother, mother..... that for me is where the joy is....

Now if only i was able to travel back in time and ask some pretty crucial questions to some of my fella's ancestors i'd be a happier person !!!... and his tree wouldn't have so many holes!!!

Tracey